Maximum box investigation

... maximum box project Ellie Roy Mrs. Satguru MP2b Maths Introduction: This project is about finding the maximum volume of different boxes by investigating what the length of the corner square is. For part 1 we had to find the maximum volume of a box made from a 20 x 20 cm piece of paper. You had to make a box (without a lid) by cutting squares from the corners. The diagram to the left shows where the corner squares are (they are shaded in grey.) It is the size of these corner squares which impact the volume of the finished box. To solve part 1's problem I tried out different corner square lengths and recorder my results in a table. For part 2 we had to do the same thing, however we had to find the volume of a box made from a 24 x 24 cm, 15 x 15 cm, 10 x 10

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